Mable Robinson Simms, (born March 29, 1914, Cape Charles, Virginia, died January 27, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American jazz pianist and singer, she performed with notable jazz musicians, also as Mabel Robinson, in the 1940–950s, including Louis Jordan, Sammy Price, Skeets Tolbert, Sammy Davis Sr., Roy Haynes, Pearl Bailey, The 4 Blackamours, and released another album on her own.
She began working at Johnny Wilson's Swanee Grill on Tremont Street, Boston, in 1939 where renown jazz drummer Roy Haynes would see her when he was in high school.
After that she performed with her sister Frances Brown and Bill Tanner as The Four Rhythm Aces before a ten-year stint with the Moulin Rouge at the Hotel Vendome which burned in a tragic incident in 1972.
Simms joined the local Boston Musicians Union in the early 1940s and remained active in it until her death, of that experience she said: "It did give me the advantage of earning a decent wage.
[1][2][3] This from the Boston Globe Obituary, "At the old Pioneer Club, a renowned after-hours spot in an alley off Tremont Street, jazz pianist and vocalist Mabel Robinson Simms drew in the fans with her bluesy piano and sultry voice in the 1950s.